Groundhog Day is Sunday, Feb. 2. California doesn't have a Groundhog Day celebration, but in a variation on the tradition, The Living Desert in Palm Desert uses a desert tortoise, Mojave Maxine, to indicate when spring has arrived.

Will spring arrive early? We will find out Sunday whether the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow or not.

Massachusetts has its own groundhogs who divine the changing of the seasons, and one of them purportedly makes more accurate predictions than Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil.

Groundhog Day has been observed on Feb. 2. The longstanding tradition calls for groundhogs to tell us if spring is near.